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Roy Haynes Quotes

This is my religion. I take long breaks now when I don't perform and I am not myself when I am not performing.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: March 13, 1925

Topics

Myself Religion I Am Long Now Take

There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them.

Promises Society Forget More Order

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

Love People You Create Own Defy

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

Become Safe Every Sterile Compulsion

I'm a workhorse. I'll take anything and everything I can get, and I'll do it with a smile on my face.

Smile Face I Can Everything Anything

When I was a kid it was much more difficult. You're trying to understand what the director wants. It's a learning process. Now, you go in and it's more of a collaboration.

Learning Collaboration Process You

When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're titans of our lives, so of course it's going to be a big deal.

Loudon Wainwright III

Father Mother Parents Big Going Our

I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice.

Diahann Carroll

Friend Words King Advice Mentor He

The beautiful thing about poker is that everybody thinks they can play.

Chris Moneymaker

Beautiful Play Poker Everybody About

People make mistakes and I've probably made a few more than others, but unfortunately mine are also a bit more public. That's the way it is. You've just got to get on with life. After all, it's not a rehearsal.

Life Mistakes People You Way Others

I remember, when I was a kid, listening to the radio and hearing 'Big Bad John' by Jimmy Dean - and it just blew me away. I used to sit there and call the radio stations and request that song. And then the Beatles were obviously out already, but I really didn't know about the Beatles.

Me Listening Song Remember Bad Know

What people eat is not well documented. Food writers prefer to focus on fashionable, expensive restaurants whose creative dishes reflect little of what most people are eating.

Food Focus Creative People Eating

Modelling isn't something I'm doing to prove people wrong. It's something I'm doing because it's what I want to do.

People Doing Wrong Want Prove

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